Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088181

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A friend runs a small manufacturing company and asked me to recommend a support tool. All the big names cost $20 per user per month, all trying to upsell AI agents and features a small business would never touch.

For a small team that just needs to answer emails without losing track of who replied to what, that feels crazy.

He just needs a tiny simple tool that does one thing well. So I'm building one.

Rails app, self host with Kamal on a cheap VPS, connect your email, invite your team, done. Still early days but it's really fun to solve these problems together in a real business.

Senior Ruby Developer with ~9 years experience, 5 as a contractor, working with public, private and non-profit sectors.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, React, Postgres, RSpec, AWS, Heroku

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerldixon/

Open to all kinds of projects, reach out via linkedin or email spencerlloyddixon[at]gmail.com

I’ve been trying to spend more time working on small fun projects and wanted to share with you a fun word guessing game I made inspired by Wordle and Minesweeper.

Here’s how it works:

You guess a 5 letter word, and get back a score representing the “distance” between your guess and the correct word.

The lower the score, the closer you are to the correct word.

The score is calculated by taking the sum of the distance between the letters of your guess and the correct word, multiplied by the levenshtein distance between the guess and the correct word.

Scores for each guess are tallied into a final total. Try to win the game by guessing the correct word with the lowest score.

It’s also a PWA so it’s installable for on the go playing

I hope you enjoy it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333489

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